This guide will help you use the Gospel of John to lead your friends to Christ, and it's as easy as falling off a log.

Straight to the Source starts from the premise that only God converts people. Our role is to point folks to Jesus by taking them to the Bible to see what Jesus says about Himself and about us.

Straight to the Source groups are based on the idea that a lot of people would read the Bible for themselves if there weren't so much baggage attached. Reading the Bible has decidedly religious overtones for most people—not that there's anything wrong with that—but most people aren't really looking for a new religion.

What most people are looking for is genuine relationships with people they can trust, genuine truth they can embrace—an authentic, sustainable spiritual experience.

Straight to the Source groups invite ordinary folks to read the Gospel of John for themselves and discuss what they're reading with other ordinary folks. The invitations are personal. The discussion is open, honest, and unpretentious. The atmosphere is accepting and hopeful—no strings attached, because converting people is God's work. Order it in our store.

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Straight to the Source is a tool that will teach you how to connect with the "hard to reach" people in your life. These people struggle with universal truth and do not see Christianity or the Bible as relevant. Some of them consider all religious belief systems equally valid. Dallas Willard in his book, The Divine Conspiracy, describes the situation like this, "People think they have heard the invitation. They think they have accepted it—or rejected it. But they have not. The difficulty today is to hear it at all."

The unfortunate reality we face is that a growing percentage of the population is trying to determine their own brand of truth. What you may hear in response to your testimony is, "It's great that you believe, but I have my own set of beliefs that work just fine for me." How can we break through to a person with this way of thinking?

What most people are looking for are genuine relationships with people they can trust, genuine truth they can embrace, and an authentic, sustainable spiritual experience. In essence, we need a fresh way of introducing truth to people. Straight to the Source is a natural way of doing this where relationships remain a priority.

In addition to its emphasis on relationships, Straight to the Source starts from the premise that only God converts people. Our role is to point people to Jesus by taking them to the Bible to see what Jesus says about Himself and about us.

Straight to the Source groups are propelled by the knowledge that a lot of people would be willing to read the Bible for themselves if there weren't so much baggage attached. Reading the Bible has decidedly religious overtones for most people—not that there's anything wrong with that; but most people aren't really looking for a new religion.

Straight to the Source groups invite ordinary folks to read the Gospel of John for themselves and discuss what they're reading with other ordinary folks. The invitations are personal. The discussion is open, honest and unpretentious. The atmosphere is accepting and hopeful—no strings attached.

Straight to the Source groups get people into the text. No preaching, no teaching, no heavy-lifting. The group just reads the Book together and ask questions until they get it. It's a high-involvement, low-pressure approach to leading people to Jesus, not fast (immediate gratification), but really effective and really easy. Like falling off a log!

Here is the big idea: if we invite people to go straight to the source and consider what the Bible says about who Jesus is and what Jesus envisions for us, quite a few will accept our invitation, and their lives will be changed by the encounter.